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The release of the EJB 3.1 EDR Spec early last month generated good feedback but there is nothing like an implementation to help understand the spec so... Mahesh and the implementation team have just pushed out an EA of EJB3.1 that installs as a container in the newly available GFv3 TP2. Check out the Features Available and How to Install it. Also see Ken's intro to the plugin. |
Check it out and please give us feedback. Enjoy!
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Adam has been making progress on his Patterns for JavaEE 5 project where he will open source all the projects in his Java EE 5 Architekturen book (in german, sorry!). Adam is also using the P4J5 project for additional examples/samples. For example, his recent experiment measuring the (Lack of) Performance Penalty Using EJB3 uses EJB3LoadTest and PojoLoadTest. Also see Adam's State of the P4J5 Project writeup. |
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GlassFish can serve different purposes beyond being a complete enterprise open source application server. Based on the fact that it is also the Java EE 5 reference implementation, Geronimo and OpenEJB commiter and long-time NetBeans user, Jacek Laskowski has a nice article putting GlassFish's EJB container to work. The article explains how to add Maven support to NetBeans 6 and to use it to handle project dependencies, keeping your pom.xml always up to date. Jacek refers twice to the well written EJB FAQ for Java EE 5 clarifications or GlassFish specifics. Jacek has more GlassFish-related articles here (in Polish). |
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Robert reports that Wotif has just switched to GlassFish (more on that soon), and this means that Robert will start writing about their experiences with the new Java EE 5 specs. His first blog describes their approach on Interfaces with EJB3; check it out! |
Wotif provides cheap last-minute hotel reservations in over 35 countries and it is specially popular in Australia, New Zeland and nearby locales (see this article).
Just a few days ago Matt Raible said that GlassFish isn't as good as Geronimo or JBoss because it didn't support Spring or Hibernate. That was a challenge for Jerome and in his latest blog he gives detailed instructions on how to run Spring on GlassFish, and also dwells into Hibernate.
Inspired by Jerome, Mr. Vince then dug into the details for the special case of Equinox and GlassFish.
There has been some discussions on the forum about this too along with Sahoo's blog as to when Hibernate and GlassFish work together. Both Ludo and I have blogged that Hibernate works SJSAS 8.1, the code base from which GlassFish started. Currently, Jerome is working with Emanuel Bernard to get EJB 3.0 features working with GlassFish. Bottom line, it can be done but it's not easy, yet. The EJB 3.0 specification and therefore the implementations are still changing so there will be some bumps and challenges until the spec settles down.
